The Phantom World - Couverture souple

Calmet, Augustin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1840225084 ISBN 13 : 9781840225082

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Augustin Calmet's classic work, "The Phantom World", first published in 1746, examines a rich and varied selection of supernatural tales and beliefs from the stance of logician or scientific enquirer. He seeks to understand the truth behind the stories of good and bad angels, magic, apparitions, vampires, witchcraft, possesson by demons, and the dead who come back to life.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Among the many phases presented by human credulity, few are more interesting than those which regard the realities of the invisible world. If the opinions which have been held on this subject were written and gathered together they would form hundreds of volumes if they were arranged and digested they would form a few, but most important. It is not merely because there is in almost every human error a substratum of truth, and that the more important the subject the more important the substratum, but because the investigation will give almost a history of human aberrations, that this otherwise unpromising topic assumes so high an interest. The superstitions of every age, for no age is free from them, will present the popular modes of thinking in an intelligible and easily accessible form, and may be taken as a means of gauging (if the expression be permitted) the philosophical and metaphysical capacities of the period. In this light, the volumes here presented to the reader will be found of great value, for they give a picture of the popular mind at a time of great interest, and furnish a clue to many difficulties in the ecclesiastical affairs of that era. In the time of Calmet, cases of demoniacal possession, and instances of returns from the world of spirits, were reputed to be of no uncommon occurrence.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840225084
• ISBN 13: 9781840225082
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible